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Interrogation as a Learning Process; The Role of the Psychologist in Assessing Cases of Alleged Child Sexual Abuse; The Competency of Children to Testify: General Issues; The Child Witness and Social Psychology; The Justice System and Accusations of Child Sexual Abuse; Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse; Indicators and Evidence of Child Sexual Abuse; Psychological Assessment of Suspected Victims; Assessment of the Accused; Behavior of Sexual Abusers; Incidence and Demographics of Child Sexual Abuse; False Accusations of Child Sexual Abuse; Suggested Criteria for Distinguishing False Accusations

Why is child sexual abuse committed primarily by men and male adolescents, unlike other forms of child abuse? Is child sex offending, rather than being a deviant masculine sexual practice, related to normative masculine practices, that is, practices structured on dynamic and changing relations of power? Using a practice-based sociological approach, the relationship between masculinities, sexualities and child sexual abuse is analysed and the power/powerlessness theory is developed to explain the predominantly male problem of child sex offending. The theory postulates that, because the social construction of masculinities involves the construction of dynamic and changing relations of power between men, men's lives are characterised by a combination of power and powerlessness. The book argues that an offender's experiences of powerlessness as a result of his relationships with other men is the key to understanding child sex offending, since sexuality is a key social practice for the alleviation of experiences of powerlessness and for establishing relations of power with other men. In particular, the theory argues that a man's particular attachment to the link between sexuality and experiences of masculinity and power will be a key factor for determining how he does sex and whom he chooses as a sexual partner. In the final chapter, the theory is tested through a re-analysis of offender interviews

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Chapter One Introduction: The Male Problem of Child Sex Offending -- A. The Research Issues -- B. Some Caveats -- C. An Historical Framework in which to Examine the Motivations of Male Child Sex Offenders -- (i) Child Prostitution and the Sexual Slave Trade -- (ii) The Social Purity Movement in England and Australia -- (iii) Protecting Men from False Accusations -- (iv) The Criminalisation of Incest in Australia -- (v) The Criminalisation of Incest in England -- (vi) Conclusion -- D. Definitions and Terminology Used in this Book -- Chapter Two Current Explanations of Child Sexual Abuse -- Child Sex Offending: Violence, Sex, Power, Dysfunctional Families or Just Plain Deviance? -- (i) Introduction -- (ii) An Analysis of Child Sexual Abuse as a Function of Family Pathology -- (iii) Sexually Coercive Behaviour: A Case of Biological Propensity or Culturally Influenced Behaviour? -- (iv) The Relationship between Power and Child Sexual Abuse -- (v) Child Sexual Abuse as a Sociological Phenomenon -- (vi) Psychological Theories of Child Sex Offenders and 'Good' and 'Bad' Masculine Sexuality -- (vii) The Characteristics of Child Sex Offenders -- (viii) The Multi-Factorial Analysis of Child Sexual Abuse -- (ix) Conclusion -- Chapter Three Masculinities and Sexualities: A Sociological Theory of Child Sexual Abuse -- A. Introduction -- B. The Role of Power and Sexuality in the Making (and Unmaking) of Men -- (i) Gender as Social Practice -- (ii) Social Practices of Masculinity and Structures of Power -- (iii) The Centrality of Heterosexism to Masculine Sexual Ideals -- (iv) Masculine Sexual Practices -- (v) 'Pedosexuality' as a Specific Masculine Sexual Practice -- (vi) Blurring the Distinction between Pathology and Normality.